FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of compact scale in OSWEGO, New York, one of the schools within OSWEGO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 319 students in grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 28% below the state mean of about 443.

Within OSWEGO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 3,460 students, FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment; the rest consists of 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 92% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 55% of students at FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 54.9%; this one comes in at 28.6%, -26.4 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Oswego County put the typical household earns roughly $69,183 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Oswego County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,529 students), of which FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

CHARLES E RILEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, FITZHUGH PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 419 students in 2018 compared to 319 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 90% to 78%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.